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Scale: HO The Splitrock is a dedicated iron ore hauling railroad featuring Alco diesels moving trains through the Birch and Pine forests located north of Lake Superior. Iron ore is graded, switched, and moved from the underground mines to an ore dock for loading onto a Great Lakes freighter. Many prototypical effects are featured with sound and lighting, and many … [Read more...] about The Splitrock Mining Company

Scale: Sn2 The Elk Creek Lumber is an award-winning freelance narrow gauge layout that depicts a fictitious logging and mining railroad that shows what can be done in a small space with S scale. All engines are custom and converted from HOn3 mechanisms. All rolling stock is scratch-built or highly converted. Built using a shadowbox design with LED lighting which provides a … [Read more...] about Elk Creek Lumber

Scale: G The Overlook Northern Railway depicts the St. Croix River Valley. It travels over bridges and tunnels through picturesque gardens set within a water garden. Scenery includes a river, lake, bait shop, and cabin; farmland, rock quarry, forest, and a neighborhood. All surrounded by beautiful flowers and plants. It also features numerous hand made bridges, a stone arch … [Read more...] about Overlook Northern Railway

Scale: G Birchwood & St. Croix Railroad models narrow gauge railroad from the late 1800’s through early 1900's. The Shay locomotive on the logging train is a scale model of the Shays invented specifically for logging in the late 1800's and early 1900's. The other locomotives are also scale models of narrow gauge steam engines with specific histories from that era. The … [Read more...] about Birchwood & St. Croix Railroad

Scale: On3 The Manns Creek Railway operated 9 miles of track from Clifftop and Sewell West Virginia from 1886 to 1955.  The railway's primary function was to haul coal down from Clifftop to Sewell and convert it into Coke. Logging was also done in the area around Clifftop.  Logs were cut and hauled to a sawmill in Landisburg then shipped down to Sewell to be reloaded into … [Read more...] about Manns Creek